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- Country of residence: Palestine
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The role of the Palestinian teacher has always been an educator for the Palestinian generations. He conveys his love for the homeland repeatedly because he carries on his shoulders the national concern and the cause of his bereaved people, and when he is in addition to that a visual artist, he contributes greatly to consolidating the national identity with his pen and brush. Likewise, the career of the professor, educator , and visual artist Abdel Muti Abu Zeid was attached to the soil of his homeland, Palestine.
His artistic and struggle career
Educator and visual artist Abdel Muti Abu Zeid was born in the city of Haifa, the bride of the Palestinian coast, in 1943. Following the Nakba of 1948, his family was expelled to Syria, passing through the city of Sidon in southern Lebanon. I had the honor of being one of his students in the middle school at the Carmel School in the center of the Yarmouk camp in the first years of the seventies of the last century, where I was eagerly awaiting the weekly drawing class. Which was taught by educator Abdel Muti Abu Zeid, during which he recalled how and how to draw, in addition to the importance of knowledge as an asset in serving the just Palestinian cause.
The plastic artist Abdel Muti Abu Zeid is considered one of the most prominent pioneers of contemporary Palestinian art. He carried the cause of his homeland with his heart, soul, and body in his paintings because he finds in drawing an important tool for expressing his inner feelings toward his land, focusing on the heritage aspect of his works and his attachment to hope and his connection as an artist to the soil of the homeland, Palestine. His city of Haifa and his perception of its sea and the beauty of its nature were imprinted in his memory, in addition to a collection of human stories he lived through and his impressions of forced displacement at the hands of Zionist gangs. He embodied this through a large number of his paintings. For him, the Palestinian issue was not only an observation, but an analysis of all the human suffering and difficult stages he saw. Which he lived in the early stages of his life like any Palestinian refugee.
His Achievements
: Abdel Muti Abu Zeid is considered one of the first founders of the Palestinian Plastic Artists Union in 1979, as a sponsor and organizer of the plastic movement within the occupied territories and in the diaspora, and he played a very influential role in introducing the Palestinian cause through plastic art. According to Abu Zeid, branches of the union were formed in most Arab countries, including Syria, Kuwait, Lebanon, and the Emirates, and they were able to achieve an active presence in most of the art exhibitions that were held in Arab and European countries, stressing that the compass of the union has always been Palestine in any artistic movement or union project that preserves the value of the homeland for the artist. And the audience alike.
Throughout his artistic career, Abu Zeid moved through several schools, starting with realism, which he did not find himself in, which made him seek to form his personality by being acquainted with many experiences in addition to his culture, so that Palestinian painting became the basis of his artistic work. Abu Zaid participated remarkably in group exhibitions in several countries: Lebanon, Yemen, Kuwait, Qatar, the Emirates, Jordan, Iran, the Soviet Union (formerly), Czechoslovakia, Germany, Poland, Bulgaria, Greece, Portugal, America, Nicaragua, Switzerland, Sweden. -Spain.
He also participated in all exhibitions of the Fine Arts Syndicate and the Ministry of Culture in Syria. He printed many paintings, posters, book covers and cards, and practiced drawing, calligraphy, journalistic production and design. In addition to that, Czech television recorded a film about Abu Zaid’s works and artistic life, and the French Cinema Group adopted his painting (Roots). Olive movie poster.
He also held solo exhibitions of his drawings on the Palestinian national issue, and in all his press interviews, Abu Zeid focused on the importance of the role of Palestinian visual artists in the process of the Palestinian national identity. It remains to be noted that Abdel Muti Abu Zeid combined being a teacher, educator, and visual artist, carrying in his life and career the love of the Palestinian homeland, to graduate thanks to his giving to hundreds of Palestinian refugee students in Syria in all fields of academic achievement, including medicine, engineering, law, media, and art in all its forms.
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